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I asked the AI to fix my laptop fan. It disabled my keyboard.

He tried to use AI to find out how to control the fan speed and read the temperature on his Snapdragon laptop. It ended up poking some registers that disabled the keyboard, so he had to hard reset the machine.

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How it works

  1. Asks the AI how to control the fan speed and read the temperature on his laptop
  2. It pokes some registers
  3. The keyboard stops working
  4. He hard resets the machine

Why it’s worth knowing

A simple fan question ended with the agent changing low level settings and the keyboard dead until a hard reset.

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Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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